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"She was in pain all her life. It often happens, of course, that people who had traumatized childhoods turn into very good children’s authors." Emma Thompson, about portraying P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books. //
My related article: "Creative People, Trauma and Mental Health" http://talentdevelop.com/6550/creative-people-and-trauma/
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The work of Kazimierz Dabrowski provides a framework to understand the supersensitivity or overexcitability frequently found in the gifted.
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Emily Fletcher – founder of Ziva Meditation – notes “Stress is actually keeping you from performing at the top of your game.“I tend to work with a lot of high performers.“My CEO clients will say ‘Emily, my stress is the thing that gives me my cutting edge, that’s the thing that keeps me, yo
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"I need my stress to achieve." - No, "Stress makes you stupid.” Emily Fletcher of Ziva Meditation - a podcast episode
Emily Fletcher – founder of Ziva Meditation – notes “Stress is actually keeping you from performing at the top of your game. “I tend to work with a lot of high performers. “My CEO clients will say ‘Emily, my stress is the thing that gives me my cutting edge, that’s the thing that keeps me, you know, competitive and in the game’ – and my actors will say to me, ‘Emily, I need my stress…this is where my art comes from.’ “But here’s the news – stress is not helping you in the performance department. “As a matter of fact, stress makes you stupid.”
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Take Back Your Nervous System is a free video series with Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein for self-regulation and embodying a healing presence.
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Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, and Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, are experts at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society.
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Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, and Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, are experts at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. Get free training produced by Sounds True with them and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Autumn Denis's curator insight,
September 1, 2021 6:12 PM
Being mindful helps keep us present and strengthens our ability to work through stress and anxiety.
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Gabor Maté: So I’m wondering what connection you’ve made between trauma and Hollywood and creativity?
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See much more in article "Artists and rejection – a part of the arts world"
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How do actors and other artists make use of their inner emotional lives, including the shadow and dark sides, to be more alive and creative?
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What can creative expression do for us spiritually and emotionally? - “Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.” – Julia Cameron. / Actor Kristin Bauer has been drawing and painting since around age twelve. “I have kept it up out of pleasure and also a needed sanctuary from the harder parts of life.”
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Claire Danes notes, like many artists, she was "a strange girl and I was in a lot of pain because of that, like most teenagers.” ... “My therapist gives me permission to accept that I’m human.”
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"There's no way I'm going to put my kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?" - Rosanna Arquette // Psychologist Mihaela Ivan Holtz notes "for you, the creative or the performer, knowing how to work with rejection is almost a career requirement!"
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Jodie Foster started as an actor at age 3. She says “I prioritize my self-worth and psychological health above all. If not, I don’t know where I would be today. I mean, there is a carpet of ex-child actors who did not make it”
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Gloria Reuben commented: "I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!” Creative people experience a wide range and depth of emotions to create. How can we work with such strong feelings and stay balanced? Psychologist Sharon Barnes notes: for "highly creative, acutely aware, highly sensitive, intense or gifted people, your emotions often come faster and harder, are more pervasive and more intense than others."
Patrice McDonough's curator insight,
June 28, 2018 11:12 AM
Modern society asks us to violate two Taboos: “Don’t Feel” and “Don’t Talk about how you feel”. Work with your strong feelings to stay balanced. Feel sad. Feel mad. Feel guilty!
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The event is online and FREE from April 18-24, 2022.
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Stress does not help performance. As a matter of fact, stress makes you stupid. Many accomplished people use meditation for stress relief.
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Halle Berry comments about her movie ‘Bruised' and how it relates to abuse and trauma:"It viscerally impacts me. I’ve seen this. I grew up with a very abusive father who was alcoholic, very much like our Desi character. I know that man. That could have been my father or my uncles."But what
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How do creative people deal with physical, emotional, sexual abuse? Many artists talk about the power of their creative work in helping do that.
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One kind of trauma many of us experience is bullying. Dr Holtz notes: "Many highly creative people have been bullied as kids. Are you one of them?"
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Julie Bjelland provides free ongoing classes 0n *High Sensitivity and Anxiety, and *Growing a Heart-Centered Online Business You Love.
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"There are particular brain differences in those of us with the trait of high sensitivity, that makes us more susceptible to high stress and anxiety."
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“Trauma is a psychic wound that hardens you psychologically and then interferes with your ability to grow and develop."
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Whether it's feedback you asked for, a remark from an audience or a ‘no’ at an audition, criticism and rejection are part of life for actors and performers.
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Emily Fletcher – founder of Ziva Meditation – notes “Stress is actually keeping you from performing at the top of your game.
“I tend to work with a lot of high performers.
“My CEO clients will say ‘Emily, my stress is the thing that gives me my cutting edge, that’s the thing that keeps me, you know, competitive and in the game’ – and my actors will say to me, ‘Emily, I need my stress…this is where my art comes from.’
“But here’s the news – stress is not helping you in the performance department.
“As a matter of fact, stress makes you stupid.”
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“I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.” Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine) in Steel Magnolias. //
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Programs to enhance your emotional health, personal growth and creative life.
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“You have to stay strong...especially in this business…so many amazing actresses get taken advantage of." Vanessa Hudgens | Psychologist Mihaela Ivan Holtz affirms “you can create your successful career without compromising your emotional integrity."
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“Actors and actresses, because that’s their career, can be sort of self-obsessed.” Kristen Bell Ben Affleck admitted, “It’s a nightmare. Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.”
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